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Drywall & Stucco Contractor: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for drywall and stucco contractors, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Drywall & Stucco Contractor

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  2. Mold Remediation (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  3. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  4. Plumber (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking
  5. General Contractor (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel

The three rooms to be in

  1. Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC): Your partners are in this room: plumbers, general contractors, and electricians.
  2. Supply house counter days & contractor breakfasts: Your partners are in this room: plumbers, electricians, and general contractors.
  3. Your city or county chamber of commerce: Your partners are in this room: community association managers, P&C insurance agents, and plumbers.
The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need drywall and stucco contractors, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Community Association Manager (HOA / Condo) They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 76 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Mold Remediation They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 71 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 71 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Plumber They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 70 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 General Contractor They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 67 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Electrician They send you work Trigger: a homeowner decides to remodel 67 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Roofing Contractor They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 66 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 65 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Commercial Property Manager They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 64 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Facility Manager They send you work Trigger: a pipe bursts or a roof starts leaking 64 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Commercial contractors association (AGC / ABC) Your pick Your partners are in this room: plumbers, general contractors, and electricians. Your partners' association · Monthly · $2,000+/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Supply house counter days & contractor breakfasts Your partners are in this room: plumbers, electricians, and general contractors. Vendor & supply chain · Informal · Free · ~2 hrs/month
  3. 3 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: community association managers, P&C insurance agents, and plumbers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Manufacturer training & certification days Your partners are in this room: plumbers and roofers. Vendor & supply chain · Quarterly · Free · ~3 hrs/month
  5. 5 CAI (Community Associations Institute) Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 CAI chapter trade show & expo Your partner is in this room: community association managers. Event or trade show · Annual · $500–$2,000/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  7. 7 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  8. 8 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →

Let us be straight with you. For drywall and stucco contractors, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

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Prime Time takes one Drywall & Stucco Contractor per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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